Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 10
When the dog had eaten this too, the sparrow said to him, ‘Well, my good friend, have you had enough now?’
Who acts: sparrow, you · What happens: eat, say, have · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 eaten | obj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 eaten | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sparrow | det |
| 10 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 friend | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 friend | punct |
| 16 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 20 friend | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Well | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friend | amod |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 friend | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 have | xcomp |
| 25 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 had | advmod |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 had | advmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 friend | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect · passive | the dog | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the sparrow | dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | participle | you not said here | now | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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